We have nothing on the right side so i think it's a cracking idea to put gerrard there..he certainly hasn't the discipline for the holding midfielder and it was noticeable that even rodgers didn't put him back there after the break...his only other roll would be behind suarez..but i'm not sure that he's got the legs to do that now...henderson and lucas need to be in the central midfield...with coutinho on the left...
if we persist with gerrard as a defensive midfielder we'll be off the pace for top 4...which would be fairly tragic considering how close we are...
yes, a tragedy, given the great football we played in late November and early half of December.
it was title-winning type football. But going by Rodgers words and overall tactics, it seems that, rather than it being by great design or plan, he rather accidentally stumbled upon a decent line-up.
and with gerrard back, top 4 will soon be a distant memory.
but like you say, why not instead play gerrard wide on the right. The deficiency exists, so fill it with captain marvel.
any small hope of winning the title ended with the Villa result.
the other three teams are now pulling away.
Rodgers made a helluva mistake playing Gerrard in the holding role. And the Villa boss was tactically smart. He had two of his players get tight on Gerrard when our man had the ball - forcing him into mistakes and being hurried. And when Villa had the ball, Gerrard was left alone - because when he does not have the ball, Captain Marvel tends to be a lazy bugger, who doesn't track the opposition back. Villa were able to counter attack at speed. The Villa boss was smart.
but as well as being tactically stupid - Rodgers second mistake was taking way too long to change things.
our boss should have seen the issue and changed things after 20 minutes.
by the time he finally reacted, we were two down.
